Beautifully Said: Debbie Sterling

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In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re sharing and celebrating the social and economic achievements of women. These beautiful and brilliant quotes are from the book Beautifully Said. Learn more about the book and the authors here.

Today’s quote is from Debbie Sterling, engineer and toymaker.

Debbie Sterling

{Born 1983}

ENGINEER • STEM CHAMPION • CHANGE MAKER

As one of the few female engineering grads in her class, Debbie set out to transform the demographics of a field that’s still 86 percent male. Using a clever viral video to fuel a successful crowdfunding campaign, she launched GoldieBlox, an educational toy company that pairs colorful building sets with stories starring adventurous kid inventors. Besides taking on the traditional toy-store “pink aisle,” Debbie’s making sure that our girls develop the confidence and skills to literally “build the future.”

Quotabelle’s first book is a serendipitous result of the startup’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. This female-powered company creates products that add missing voices back into history and ensure today’s remarkable thinkers and doers aren’t overlooked going forward.

You’ll love seeing quotes by incredible women from bygone eras, like Eleanor Roosevelt, Ella Fitzgerald, Harriet Tubman, and Audrey Hepburn, as well as contemporary figures like Serena Williams, Amy Poehler, Malala Yousafzai, as well as noteworthy up-and-comers, including an Everest-scaling mountaineer, a space archaeologist, and a serial entrepreneur. Because sharing ideas and stories is how passions get sparked and role models emerge.